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SULLIVAN v. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD

No. 08-1817.

561 F.3d 7 (2009)

Kevin SULLIVAN; Vincent Dudley; Mark Mehringer; Jason Sleeper; Michael Trombley, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 24, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred Gordon with whom Harold L. Lichten and Pyle, Rome, Lichten, Ehrenberg & Liss-Riordan, P.C. were on brief for appellants.

Maurice M. Cahillane, Associate City Solicitor, with whom Edward M. Pikula, City Solicitor, was on brief for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA AND SILER, Circuit Judges.

LYNCH, Chief Judge.

Kevin Sullivan, Vincent Dudley, Mark Mehringer, Jason Sleeper, and Michael Trombley are current and former police officers who were hired by Springfield, Massachusetts ("the City") in 1997 and then laid off in 2003. Plaintiffs were all later recalled by the City. In 2005, they sued the City, asserting claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, inter alia.

Plaintiffs, who are white, claimed that "race-based determinations" made by the City during...

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